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Reviews

One Little Atlas – Wayfarer

Ramber Records

“skilfully done top to bottom, a huge and luxurious achievement”


Carlton Melton – Turn To Earth

Agitated

“a full 120-minute odyssey too that displays the full range of Carlton Melton material”


Catatonic Suns – S/T

Agitated Records

“A popular (but not “pop”) take on rock, suffocating shoegaze and psych”


PCM – Dreamland

n5MD

as listenable as it is admirable


Woods – Perennial

Woodsist

“excellent new take on their summery psych-pop sound”


Tiger Lou – Acts

Startracks.

Code red for the Scandi noirs


Celestial North – Otherworld

Bandcamp

Pagan Poetry


A.R. Kane – A.R. Kive Box-Set

Lavish box set re-issue for the dreampop pioneers


Osees – Intercepted Message

In The Red

“Thee Oh Sees are back to slay pretence and pretenders alike”


Mercylane – Mayday EP

from the former God Machine man


Various Artists – These Clouds…

Sound in Silence

Label celebrates milestone with compilation release


Scenius – Life Is A Thing

Bandcamp

Can the darkwave/synthpop duo do it again?


Deepriver – Volume One

n5MD

Hemisphere-spanning ambiance.


The Declining Winter – Really Early, Really Late

Home Assembly Recordings

“The instrumentation is an absolute treat. Each note feels considered, even agonised over.”


The National – First Two Pages of Frankenstein

4AD

Ninth outing from the Dads of sad.


SENSES – Little Pictures Without Sound

42's Records

Arena-sized anthems from latest Coventry wonders.


IST IST – Protagonists

Kind Violence Records

Impressive 3rd outing from the Manc post-punks


Laurel Canyon – S/T

Agitated

The grunge revival gets another reboot.


Last Days – Windscale

n5MD

contemplative ‘soundtrack’ to the UKs worst Nuclear disaster


Emperor Zero – Nights Of The Hunter EP

Ramber Records/Sways

“Blossoming in adversity, beautiful melodies square off against the solemnity of the Old Testament, post-punk guitars soaring poetically from the noisy squalor”